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...Mexican finds are significant but hardly a complete solution to future energy shortages. At best, oil from Mexico would put off the projected fuel crunch from the late 1980s to the early 1990s. But together with other potential big fields???in China, Iraq, Canada, South America, Alaska and elsewhere?the new bonanza in Mexico could enable the world to scrape by into the 21st century, by which time energy from alternative sources may be widely available...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: Mexico Joins Oil's Big Leagues | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

...outside Sabin, Minn. (pop. 333). For an hour or so, he trades community gossip, argues about politics and drops casual remarks about crops and prices designed to feel out what his fellow farmers are doing without asking them a direct question, which is taboo. Then off to the fields???and into the computer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New American Farmer | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

...antitrust barriers often stand in the way of combinations within a company's own field. They may prevent not only "horizontal" mergers with competitors, but, to a lesser degree, "vertical" mergers with suppliers or customers. The present law, though, generally enables companies to take over other enterprises in different fields???and it is just that loophole through which the new conglomerate organizers are moving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: THE CONGLOMERATES' WAR TO RESHAPE INDUSTRY | 3/7/1969 | See Source »

...almost incredible performance by an author who has written one superb novel? and done work that is both interesting and fine in other literary fields???very nearly the most puerile book pretending to deal with America yet written by a visiting European...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Officer! He's in Again! One Wonders What Lawrence Would Do With Mother Goose | 10/1/1923 | See Source »

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